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How do i make a VHD Bootable

Anonymous
2025-01-02T06:44:00+00:00

Hi,
i have a Hyper-V Virtual machine and i would like to make it bootable and burning the VHD to a external ssd, then being able to boot off of it to remove the virtualization layer. the ssd is 120gb and the image only takes up 50gb at the moment, i think in Hyper-V the drive is 500gb if that is a issue, does anyone know of any software or cmd/powershell commands to try this, i have tried copying the files from the VHD but it did not work for some reason. any help would be great.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-03T02:42:28+00:00

    Hi,

    As far as I know, Microsoft does not provide tools or cmd/PowerShell commands to convert a virtual disk to a physical disk. You have to try some third-party disk tools to clone the VHD file to your SSD.

    If the virtual disk is dynamic and currently takes up only 50 GB, attach the virtual disk in Disk Management and shrink the volume size to less than 120 GB, then you will be able to shrink the virtual disk size to remove the unallocated disk space in Hyper-V Manager > Edit Disk.

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